[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Yes it is Woodnook Water...or at least that is what we always knew it as.

As for those pipes going across the beck...they were there when I was a child(there were three sections of the beck crossed by wide pipes)........though they did not have the metal 'frill' on them to prevent you from walking along the pipe . I know this because my brother was once showing off.......walking along the pipe like a tightrope walker.......pride comes before a fall...and fall off he did, into the water.......got his school blazer soaked and his bum tanned when we got back home to Riley's Hill.
My memories are from the late fifties(57/58)

Those pipes were installed to divert the efluent from the dye works up Bash till it went past the mills on the factory bottom, before that the mill owners were up in arms about it, the dirty water was damaging their boilers, they had frills on those pipes when I first saw them, that was before you were born.